Usually means: Standard full-time work hours.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word nine-to-five:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. nine-to-five: Merriam-Webster
  2. nine-to-five: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nine-to-five, nine-to-five: Collins English Dictionary
  4. nine-to-five: Wiktionary
  5. nine-to-five: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. nine-to-five: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. nine-to-five: Dictionary.com
  8. nine-to-five: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nine-to-five, nine-to-five, nine-to-five: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Nine-to-Five: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Of a job, beginning at 9 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m., the usual office hours in many countries.
verb:  (informal) To work a typical job beginning at 9 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m.

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